Teachings of Modern Protestantism on Law, Politics, and Human Nature

John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published 120 articles and 20 books, including Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation and The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism. Frank S. Alexander is Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published a dozen volumes, including The Weightier Matters of the Law: Essays on Law and Religion.

Rarely have the riches of modern theology and theological anthropology been so incisively analyzed for their insights into the fundamentals of our modern political condition. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Crisp, informative, even-handed, and, above all, interesting. It is a joy to learn what riches there are in modern times in the major Christian traditions. -- Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley A useful resource and a powerful inspiration. -- Rebecca S. Chopp, President, Colgate University; Former President, American Academy of Religion

• Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander Introduction to Modern Protestantism, by Mark A. Noll Abraham Kuyper (1827-1920) Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Karl Barth (1886-1968) Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) William Stringfellow (1928-1985) John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) Copyright Information Index to Biblical Citations General Index